Sam Altman on Confidence Quotes

"If you don't believe in yourself, it's very hard to let yourself have contrarian ideas about the future."

"Manage your own morale. It’s very hard to keep going when you don’t believe you’re going to win."

"It is much easier to be confident when you are working on something that actually matters."

"A small amount of something your users love is better than a large amount of something your users like."

"Being confident doesn't mean you're never scared; it means you keep going anyway."

"Your own belief in the vision is what will attract others to join you."

"Cultivate a small group of people who believe in you when you don't believe in yourself."

"Sleep is the most important physical factor in productivity."

"The level of confidence you need to start a company is different from the level you need to scale one."

"Don't wait for someone else to give you permission to be great."

"Confidence comes from a history of doing things that were hard."

"Most people are stopped by fear of failure, but the confident know that failure is just a data point."

"Great execution is at least 10 times more important and 100 times harder than a good idea."

"The world is much more malleable than most people think, but you have to have the confidence to push on it."

"Self-belief is immensely powerful. The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion."

"Believe in the compounding of your own efforts."

"Confidence is the result of many small victories stacked on top of each other."

"Build things that people want, and your confidence will grow as you see them use it."

"A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try."

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood for a long time if you want to do something new."

"Confidence is about knowing your strengths and being honest about your weaknesses."

"You need to have a core of self-belief that is not shaken by what other people think."

"If you are right about something that everyone else is wrong about, that is where the value is created."

"You have to believe that you are the person who can solve the problem."

"Confidence is the fuel that gets you through the trough of sorrow."

"The best way to build confidence is to actually be good at what you do."

"The most important thing is to just keep going. Persistence is a form of confidence."

"Write down your goals. It is important to know what you want."

"The most successful people are often the most confident, but they are also the most curious."

"You should be confident enough to ignore advice that doesn't feel right, even from smart people."

"If you want to do something great, you have to believe it's possible before there's any proof."

"The most successful founders have a high degree of self-belief, but they are also very open to being told they are wrong."

"The best founders are often the ones who were told 'no' a hundred times but kept going."